Gun Marches Today

[fstarcstar]

[John Galt]

[Spider]

Because it's dramatic and flashy, Galt. Simple people like shiny things and loud noises. Same story is true of people flipping out over atomic bombs during WW2. They don't care that conventional bombing campaigns were orders of magnitude more deadly...those nukes are FLASHY and SENSATIONAL! Or people today who blame "the media" for every damned thing as if it were some sort of homogenized, monolithic thing controlled by a cabal operating out of a volcano lair.

We've got fstar literally claiming that "teh mediuh" orchestrated the big march the other day. With a straight face. He is that naive. The media is loud, always there, and sensational. So people freak out about the media reporting something instead of the thing itself. School shootings are dramatic, shocking, and perfect vehicles for emotional arguments and action. So people ignore the actual facts and fly off the handle. "We've got to do something!!!! OMG!"

Trying to apply statistics or even some measure of base rationality to any of this is completely pointless. Sheep are sheep. They have been well trained.

[ToddStarnes]

With the full understanding that almost all measures proposed by libs would not meaningfully reduce gun violence (and libs are likely responsible for some gun violence because they think poors should have 4/A rights), there is a certain assumption of risk of living that covers transit accidents and similar calamities, but it doesn't really extend to being gunned down in a classroom. Statistically insignificant of course - and I'm sympathetic to frustrations regarding emotional overreaction - but the visceral reaction is justifiable IMO.

The self importance bleating gets old though.

In others news what so you think for a first 9mm spider? Sig 226 or CZ 75 or other?

[Saz]

[ToddStarnes]

226 or 320? 226 seems classic but the modularity of 320 is appealing.

[Saz]

[ToddStarnes]

I think the p226 is more expensive actually but point taken.

[spacemonkey]

People were killing each other before the gun was even around, and will continue to do so even if every gun is removed from the face of the earth.. In the past, being hacked had a different meaning.

[NAB]